Earlier this week I wrote a post about follower-building services on Twitter, warning about the dangers and how people may perceive you if you use them.
It felt a little bit like preaching to the choir.
Amy Mengel made an excellent point in the comments to that post:
“Unfortunately the people on Twitter who promote these schemes and [...]
Category Archives: Twitter
8 Talking Points On Twitter Follower-Building Tools
July 3, 2009 – 8:00 am
Twitter Follower-Building Services – Gain Numbers, Lose Respect?
June 30, 2009 – 8:00 am
As time goes on, it feels like more and more people are feeling the allure of Twitter follower-building services. It’s easy to see the allure of this, but there’s one big downside: They spam your Twitter account.
TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop: Racing To The Bottom?
June 17, 2009 – 8:00 am
Twitter was buzzing last night as the latest version of free Twitter client TweetDeck was launched, to fairly universal acclaim.
Mashable has a detailed run-down of the new Tweetdeck features, and a good comparison of the new version with its closest competitor, Seesmic Desktop. In a nutshell, the big-name new features are:
A new TweetDeck iPhone app;
Support [...]
Is The State Of The Twittersphere Declining?
June 16, 2009 – 8:00 am
On June 10 HubSpot released its second State of the Twittersphere report. The report looks at information collected from over 4.5 million Twitter accounts over the last nine months. Their conclusion:
"…many of the accounts on Twitter aren’t actually using it all that much."
The report found that:
79.79% failed to provide a homepage URL;
75.86% of users have [...]
I Don’t Care When You Joined Twitter
May 4, 2009 – 8:00 am
A couple of big old-media events boosted Twitter’s profile over the last few weeks (ever notice how social media tool success is often still measured by traditional media coverage?). First, Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to see who reached one million followers first. Shortly after that, Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter.
The storm of media coverage over those [...]
Where’s The Line With Twitter “Spam”?
May 1, 2009 – 7:28 am
Do you find it helpful when people link to their latest content on Twitter?
Tweetstats says I’ve posted an average of about 25 tweets per day since September 2007. In the last few months, I’ve averaged over 40. Each weekday, one of those tweets is usually to my latest blog post.
The question is, does that tweet [...]
Fast-Tracking to Twitter
April 22, 2009 – 8:00 am
Back in February I mused about the apparent greater willingness of companies to sign up for Twitter than to start blogs. I’ll go one further now – I’m starting to see companies skip blogging entirely and go straight to Twitter.
Companies like Fairmont Hotels are by-passing blogging entirely and starting to engage with Twitter as an [...]
Talking Twitter With CityOnline
April 20, 2009 – 8:00 am
One of the great things about social media tools is that they let you connect with people you’d otherwise never meet.
One of the people I’ve gotten to know and like over the last little while is fellow Brit Danny Brown, founder of the 12 for 12k challenge. We finally met face-to-face at PodCamp Toronto this [...]
Aston Martin Brandjacked On Twitter
April 16, 2009 – 9:03 am
Aston Martin joins a long list of people and organizations to have been brandjacked on Twitter.
A fake account, AstonMartin, has attracted a reasonable (though not huge) following while posing as an official account. My attention was drawn to it when the account retweeted one of my posts about a recall of older car models by [...]
Higher Volume, Different Approach
April 15, 2009 – 8:00 am
Plenty of people have written recently about the recent influx of people to Twitter and how this is changing their perception of the service. I’ve given my take on it – essentially, that Twitter is what you make it – if you don’t like what you see, change it.
Still, the fact remains that with additional [...]
